The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 53

On the way to the wood Hansel crumbled it in his pocket, and every few minutes he stood still and dropped a crumb on the ground.

Who acts: Hansel, few minutes · What happens: crumble, stand, drop · To what, where: wood, way, crumb, ground

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, few minutes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
7	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	nsubj
8	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crumbled	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 minutes	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 minutes	amod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crumbled	conj
20	still	still	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dropped	cc
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stood	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 crumb	det
24	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	past	Hansel	wood	the way to the wood		in man's pocket	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stand	past	every few minutes			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	every few minutes not said here	a crumb	the ground			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on ground=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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